Reinforcements arrived and chased the Boko Haram fighters back, and the exact details of the loss of the base are still a matter of no small speculation, with the Nigerian military denying any troops had fled, but locals reporting that they’d virtually abandoned Gulak to local fighters before Boko Haram even arrived.

Either way, military intelligence confirmed that at least 107 Nigerian soldiers remain missing from one of the earlier battles in the area, and Boko Haram made off with a bunch of equipment, including a T-72 tank.

Officials, the Nigerian military also denies that there were any soldiers missing at all, but officials reporting to the media off the record confirmed the report, and say that well over a week after the battles began, they have no idea what happened to all those troops.